Alice in Wonderland
Charming exhibition at the British Library looking at the 150th anniversary of the
publication of Alice in Wonderland.
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The whole display
was beautiful with a good introduction to the story told via a maze of display
with “Eat me” signs and quotes and illustrations from the book.
The first main
section then looked at how the book was written and published. It started with
the original manuscript of Alice’s Adventures Underground” as it was first
called, given to Alice Liddell following the story being made up for her and
her sisters on a picnic. Next to it was Carroll’s diary entry for the day which
he later went back an annotated to point of the story mentioned was Alice. It
was so moving to see these two pieces together. It also talked about how out
vision of Alice was created by Tenniel and the show included some of the
original wood blocks found by the published MacMillan in 1985.
The other section
looked at how each generation had adopted the story and in particular how the
different illustrations reflected the period they were created in. Copyright
expired in 1907 so there has been 100 years of reinterpretation. I loved some
of the 1960s psychedelic interpretations. It also showed how it is often used
by satirists.
Closes on 17
April 2016.
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